<div dir="ltr">Hi Suzuki,<div> </div><div>no I was wondering because you said:</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">> I'm not saying "this is ready <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">to use, please use" </div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I tried it and it seems to be working ok. XML output would be much better though since that's what pdftotext's output is.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Is there an quick/easy way to achieve the same with XML output? </div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:21 PM, suzuki toshiya <<a href="mailto:mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp" target="_blank">mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sorry, I would not have sufficient time to work with poppler until the end of this month. my patch for the poppler-dump was just a proof of concept, and I have not used much yet. have you experienced something? obsidian . wrote: > Hi Suzuki, > > have you noticed any problems while using the patched poppler-dump utility? > > > > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:25 AM, obsidian . <<a href="mailto:obsidian9993@gmail.com">obsidian9993@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:obsidian9993@gmail.com">obsidian9993@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > Thanks Suzuki. > > I was looking for something more tried, tested and "stable". > I'm kind of surprised there's no other way to output char level information. > <div><div class="h5">> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Adam Reichold <<a href="mailto:adam.reichold@t-online.de">adam.reichold@t-online.de</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:adam.reichold@t-online.de">adam.reichold@t-online.de</a>>> wrote: > Hello again, > > so I obviously forgot the attachment... |:-\ Sorry for that. > > Regards, > Adam > > Am 05.05.2018 um 08:16 schrieb Adam Reichold: >> Hello mpsuzuki, >> >> attached is a version of your patch with some inline comments. >> >> Generally speaking, I would say that some well-defined format like JSON >> or YAML would be preferable to the ad-hoc encoding? >> >> Best regards, >> Adam >> >> Am 03.05.2018 um 13:50 schrieb suzuki toshiya: >>> Current poppler-dump (a testing tool of cpp-frontend) has no feature to >>> demonstrate per-character bbox feature. >>> Attached patch adds the option to demonstrate it (I'm not saying "this is ready >>> to use, please use", I want to understand your request and whether existing >>> features could cover some part of your requests). >>> >>> The patched poppler-dump can work like this: >>> >>> $ cpp/tests/poppler-dump --show-glyph-list test.pdf >>> Page 1/1: >>> --- >>> [Please] @ ( x=72 y=72.624 w=61.32 h=21.6 ) >>> [0] @ ( x=72 y=72.624 w=13.344 h=21.6 ) >>> [1] @ ( x=85.344 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 ) >>> [2] @ ( x=92.016 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) >>> [3] @ ( x=102.672 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) >>> [4] @ ( x=113.328 y=72.624 w=9.336 h=21.6 ) >>> [5] @ ( x=122.664 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) >>> [wait...] @ ( x=139.32 y=72.624 w=59.328 h=21.6 ) >>> [0] @ ( x=139.32 y=72.624 w=17.328 h=21.6 ) >>> [1] @ ( x=156.648 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) >>> [2] @ ( x=167.304 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 ) >>> [3] @ ( x=173.976 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 ) >>> [4] @ ( x=180.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 ) >>> [5] @ ( x=186.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 ) >>> [6] @ ( x=192.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 ) >>> [If] @ ( x=72 y=112.428 w=7.992 h=10.8 ) >>> [0] @ ( x=72 y=112.428 w=3.996 h=10.8 ) >>> [1] @ ( x=75.996 y=112.428 w=3.996 h=10.8 ) >>> [this] @ ( x=82.992 y=112.428 w=17.34 h=10.8 ) >>> [0] @ ( x=82.992 y=112.428 w=3.336 h=10.8 ) >>> [1] @ ( x=86.328 y=112.428 w=6 h=10.8 ) >>> [2] @ ( x=92.328 y=112.428 w=3.336 h=10.8 ) >>> [3] @ ( x=95.664 y=112.428 w=4.668 h=10.8 ) >>> ... >>> >>> Regards, >>> mpsuzuki >>> >>> suzuki toshiya wrote: >>>> Dear obsidian, >>>> >>>> Too many posts about similar issues :-) >>>> I'm not sure whether poppler maintainers are interested in the enhancement of >>>> pdftotext, >>>> but recently Jeroen and I were working with cpp-frontend to have similar features. >>>> >>>> in the latest version of poppler, >>>> cpp-frontend has a feature to retrieve the list of words with bounding box, >>>> and it can retrieve the bounding box for each glyph in the word. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> also I proposed a patch to retrieve the font family and point size: >>>> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2018-April/013035.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2018-April/013035.html</a> >>>> >>>> it might be waiting the maintainers review. the discussion and result would be >>>> found at here: >>>> <a href="https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools/issues/29" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools/issues/29</a> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>>> - style, i.e. none, bold, italic >>>> if the document producer has a bold font and used in the document, aslike >>>> Helvetica-Bold, >>>> it would be found by the family name. >>>> but if the document producer has no bold font and let the word processor >>>> software synthesize the embolden fonts, >>>> it would be difficult for the PDF renderer to recognize it as embolden font, >>>> because the embolding is done by showing same glyph with subtle shifting. >>>> Simple PDF renderers would be unable to distinguish "normal font but layered" >>>> and "embolden font". >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> mpsuzuki >>>> >>>> obsidian . wrote: >>>>> I'm using "pdftotext -bbox file.pdf" to convert a pdf file into html. >>>>> >>>>> Here's a sample line from the output: >>>>> <word xMin="359.852025" yMin="462.548936" xMax="365.689478" yMax="467.681498">foo</word> >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to get font information for every word like: >>>>> - font family, e.g. Verdana >>>>> - style, i.e. none, bold, italic >>>>> - size, e.g. font size 9 >>>>> >>>>> I'm using pdftotext version 0.55.0 on Windows. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> poppler mailing list </div></div>>>>> <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> >>>> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> poppler mailing list >>>> <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> >>>> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> poppler mailing list >> <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> >> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> >> > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> > <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> > > > > > </blockquote></div> </div>